12-14-2015, 09:05 PM
The thing is Luck's stats years 1 and 2 weren't even that good. It was like the story had been written before he played and they were sticking to it no matter what.
Quote:The thing is Luck's stats years 1 and 2 weren't even that good. It was like the story had been written before he played and they were sticking to it no matter what.
Quote:You're right, but he won a lot of games against the Jags, titans, and texans. It fit the desired narrative.
Quote:Exactly, now Bortles is playing as well as Luck ever has, where is his HOF recognition? Luck would be called an elite QB if he was playing like Bortles.
Quote:That is just obviously false. He is no where near close to the level Luck before this injury plagued season. Not a single metric is even slightly in Bortles' favor as compared to Luck's best season thus far. For all the hate Luck gets for beating up on the weak AFCS, keep in mind that Bortles has played in that very same division. He also has the benefit of playing the league's easiest schedule this year.
Quote:That is just obviously false. He is no where near close to the level Luck before this injury plagued season. Not a single metric is even slightly in Bortles' favor as compared to Luck's best season thus far. For all the hate Luck gets for beating up on the weak AFCS, keep in mind that Bortles has played in that very same division. He also has the benefit of playing the league's easiest schedule this year.
Quote:I think we will all have to agree to disagree.
Let me put an end to this thread.
At the end of the day Jags fans are very happy that Bortles is playing as well as he is. He has shown tremendous growth this year and given Jags fans hope for the future.
Titans fans are excited about Mariota. Rightfully so. He has played much better than many of us thought considering the offense Oregon runs.
Some Jags fans are skeptical about Mariota's ability to continue to perform at this level, because dual threat QBs coming from shotgun offenses are hard to predict.
Titans fans don't like that Jags fans have this skepticism.
Lots of stats
And.......thread.
Quote:Is Bortles still a bottom tier QB?
On a message board full of craptastic takes, that might be the worst of them all.
Quote:You're talking about a career 85 passer rating QB in Luck. He's been the best in the AFCS, but that's really been more about how bad the AFCS has been than how great Luck has been. The narrative is he's awesome, and he's certainly been good, but he's not the hall of fame guy all the jock polishers over at ESPN have been dying to crown him as. (at least so far)
Quote:Obviously some guys on here are really trashing Mariota just to rustle up the baconators jimmies.
Some of it has merit though. There will be more tape on him next season and defenses will start to take away his checkdowns. He is definitely going to have to get his deep ball going. Whoever is the offensive coordinator next year is going to have to tailor around mariotas strengths and not try to force him into a system where he won't excel.
I think mariota will be good enough to be the franchise qb but anyone watching bortles has to see that hes already playing at a high level and there is a lot more room before he reaches his ceiling, I dont think mariota has that much potential because of his physical limitations.
Like you said, these tack fans coming on here and discrediting bortles are really only discrediting themselves.
Quote:Good teams already know how to play mariota, it's more a testament to how bad Gus is at preparing his defense that mariota was able to do everything he's comfortable with and the defense didn't make him do the things he doesn't want to do.He was also running for his life and had several key drops (Walker and Beckham). Hopefully we can improve our WR corps and upgrade the O-line so it's not so porous. Let's pump the brakes on the champ or chump label until he's at least had 2 years under his belt.
Did you see what the Jets did to him on Sunday? In the end his passing yards were respectable, but that was almost entirely from garbage time. During the part of the game where he had a chance to keep the titans in the game he was miserable.
Quote:He was also running for his life and had several key drops (Walker and Beckham). Hopefully we can improve our WR corps and upgrade the O-line so it's not so porous. Let's pump the brakes on the champ or chump label until he's at least had 2 years under his belt.
Quote:That's a sensible post.
Quote:http://a.video.nfl.com/films/2015/NFL_CO..._3200k.mp4
Stares down Sankey to draw the LB out and then no-looks the pass to Walker. Filthy.
Quote:He was also running for his life and had several key drops (Walker and Beckham). Hopefully we can improve our WR corps and upgrade the O-line so it's not so porous. Let's pump the brakes on the champ or chump label until he's at least had 2 years under his belt.
Quote:Your favorite titans hater illustrated what I've been saying the other day in an article, MM likes to throw to the middle of the field and not downfield or to the sidelines, and he's very poor at those passes compared to going to the middle.I think it's less about his ability to do so than it is about having the horses to run the routes. Kendall Wright is a slot guy and Delanie Walker is a tight end. Not exactly the guys you want running go routes.
<a class="bbc_url" href='http://espn.go.com/blog/tennessee-titans/post/_/id/17477/marcus-mariota-has-a-major-sweet-spot'>http://espn.go.com/blog/tennessee-titans/post/_/id/17477/marcus-mariota-has-a-major-sweet-spot</a>
That was the pass he lived and died by against the Jaguars a couple of weeks ago. When he needed to convert a long third down he went to Walker in the middle of the field in front of the safety. That Gus, a defensive minded coach (lol) couldn't make this connection and have his team ready to make sure Mariota didn't get to go to that well, is a real indictment of his abilities in that area.
Quote:I think it's less about his ability to do so than it is about having the horses to run the routes. Kendall Wright is a slot guy and Delanie Walker is a tight end. Not exactly the guys you want running go routes.
And yes Kuharsky is an [BAD WORD REMOVED]. He rarely has much positive to say about anyone.